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Dancing to Psy’s Gangnam Style outside a Madrid bank, the grey-haired protesters might not have been quite in time with the pounding beat of the South Korean pop song, but few cared.

Meet the yayo flautas, the oldest rebels in town — the Spanish pensioners’ movement, whose members prefer genteel forms of protest, expressing their anger at government cuts by dancing to reggae, pop hits, or the pasa doble instead of charging police lines or dodging rubber bullets.

The yayo flautas — a mix of the Spanish words for grandpa and protester — can remember living under the dictatorship of General Franco between